Explore/Archive
January 4–March 3, 2018
Alexandra Bell
exploring the role of stereotypes, messaging, and news media to directly engage issues of racism, gun violence, and police brutality
January 9–March 3, 2018
Doreen Garner
Invisible Man Tattoo is a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.
March 6–April 21, 2018
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Shug Avery’s Kiss, a project that will turn the physical space of Recess into a juke joint.
March 8–April 28, 2018
Tiffany Smith
inspired by traditions of West African portrait photography and the cultural practice of using the wicker throne peacock chair
On view
Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice
Assembly
a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum and co-curated by our collaborators
April 19, 2018
Assembly x NYU 2018: Art | Education | Community Practice
Assembly
Shaun Leonardo, along with members of the program’s peer leadership group led a participatory presentation informed by the Assembly curriculum
May 3–June 2, 2018
Manuel Molina Martagon
EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.
May 10–July 28, 2018
Xaviera Simmons
a multimedia video presentation and as a documentary filmmaking studio to compile a series of interviews designed to decenter Whiteness
June 7–August 14, 2018
Ilana Harris-Babou
Harris and Daughter Home Goods will transform Recess into a hardware store, cooking show set, showroom, and interrogation of the American Dream.
September 6–December 22, 2018
Oscar Rene Cornejo
exploring printmaking as a vehicle for engaging the ways trauma and memory are shaped by institutionalized violence, displacement, and exile
September 7–October 26, 2018
Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin
Jes Fan
Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin will investigate the material agency of melanin, the natural pigment that determines skin color
November 6–December 15, 2018
Camilo Godoy
Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?
January 3–February 9, 2019
Demian DinéYazhi´
R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.
February 14–April 6, 2019
Lizania Cruz
$200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands.
March 21–May 11, 2019
blue are the feelings that live inside me
AMERICAN ARTIST
From March 21 – May 11, 2019, American Artist will present blue are the feelings that live inside me, a series of photographs responding to a growing
April 19–June 8, 2019
Lex Brown
The Inside Room is a project that transforms Recess into a production studio for impromptu, tactile TV made for the body and voice.
